Mounting arrears, Maharashtra govt shelves Rs 1,071-crore power sop plan for households
The Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra has shelved its plan to absorb the power bills of domestic consumers for three months during the lockdown.
Citing mounting arrears, Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Tuesday announced that the government will not be able to provide any relaxations in power bills for the lockdown months of April, May and June. Consumers will have to pay the full amount as per the readings in the bills, he told mediapersons.
In the wake of complaints of excessive power bills being received by people, including by prominent industrialists and film celebrities, Raut’s department had in August proposed to bear the bulk of “additional” burden for the April-June period of the lockdown.
